Only in a used bookshop ~

Purchased in The Neat L'l Bookshop BIG MAN COMING DOWN THE ROAD, Penguin Canada, 2007. "UNCORRECTED AND UNPUBLISHED PROOFS - CONFIDENTIAL"   Unpublished proofs are the preliminary copies sent out to select critics and media ~ not distributed to the public.

There are often changes in text and/or graphics in the finished product.  For example, the cover of BIG MAN, does not include the lady with the whip!

l - r Chris Maher, Ron Edwards, Pat Lightfoot, Ron Neville

Members of the Haldimand-Norfolk Stewardship Council met at the OPG on Saturday, October 12, for a planning meeting.  Susan Thurston, OPG representative and Council member, facilitated.

"Dedicated volunteers and stakeholders who share a concern for the environment" discussed on-going programs and projects.The Norfolk Land Stewardship Council and the Haldimand Stewardship Council joined together after the Ministry of Natural Resources withdrew Stewardship funding across the province.

For information on the work of the Stewardship and how you can get involved, visit www.hnstewardshipcouncils.org

The office of Haldimand-Norfolk Stewardship Council is located on Cayuga Street, Cayuga, Ontario.

*Ontario Power Generating

"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."

~ Walter Cronkite (1916 - 2009)  American broadcast journalist.

THERE came a wind like a bugle ;
     It quivered through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the windows and the doors
As from an emerald ghost ;
The doom's electric moccason
That very instant passed.
On a strange mob of panting trees,
And fences fled away,
And rivers where the houses ran
The living looked that day.
The bell within the steeple wild
The flying tidings whirled.
How much can come
And much can go,
And yet abide the world !

~ Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) Ameican poet.

Preface from Poems, 1890*:  "The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio," ~ something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind."
"a recluse by temperament and habit, literally spending years without setting her foot beyond the doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly limited to her father's grounds."

*Thomas Wentworth Higginson.  (Higginson with Mabel L. Todd edited and published the firstset of Emily Dickenson's poetry in 1890.  "It was hailed as a literary event.")

Cover of POEMS



The Old Net Shed ~ Quaint Bookshop Meaford, ON

 "We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change.  And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."
~ Peter F. Drucker (1909 - 2005) Austrian-born American writer, professor, management consultant.

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities.  In the expert's mind there are few."
~ Shunryu Suzuki (1904 - 1971)  Japanese Soto Zen Monk.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
~ H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) English writer.

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." ~ Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)  Publisher of Forbes Magazine.

"...whenever we exaggerate or demonize,, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose.  Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose.  For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face as a country.  It's what keeps us locked in "either/or" thinking:  the notion that we can have only big government or no government; the assumption that we must either tolerate forty-six million without health insurance or embrace 'socialized medicine.'

"It is such doctrinaire thinking and stark partisanship that have turned Americans off of politics.  This is not a problem for the right;  a polarized electorate - or one that easily dismisses both parties because of the nasty, dishonest tone of the debate - works perfectly well for those who seek to chip away at the very idea of government.  After all, a cynical electorate is a self-centered electorate.
"But for those of us who believe that government has a role to play in promoting opportunity and prosperity for all Americans, a polarized electorate isn't good enough."

~ Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, Crown Publishers, 2006.

Emily Dickinson ~

BESIDES the autumn poets sing,
     A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.

A few incisive mornings,
A few ascetic eves, ~
Gone Mr. Bryant's golden-rod,
And Mr. Thomson's sheaves.

Still is the bustle in the brook,
Sealed are the spicy valves;
Mesmeric fingers softly touch
The eyes of many elves.

Perhaps a sqirrel may remain,
My sentiments to share.
Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind,
Thy windy will to bear !

~ When Emily died in 1886, her sister Lavina found a box containing hundreds of poems ~ the first set was published in 1890.